Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Thurs + Fri late night events: &Now Offsite Group Readings!

Join us Thursday and Friday nights for a ton of visitors from all-over-the-damn-place. They're all in SoCal for the &Now conference at CalArts, and we're bringing them down from the desert into the center of the blast radius, Downtown LA, to read for you townies.

Our Thursday night visitors:Carlos Soto-Román is a poet and translator. A former resident of
Philadelphia, PA he now hails from Santiago, Chile. He has published in
Chile: La Marcha de los Quiltros (1999), Haikú Minero (2007), Cambio y
Fuera (2009), and in the US: Philadelphia’s Notebooks (Otoliths, 2011),
Chile Project: [Re-classified] (Gauss-PDF, 2013), Alternative Set of
Procedures (Corollary Press, 2014) and The Exit Strategy (Belladonna,
2014). As a translator he published an expanded Spanish edition of Do or
DIY (Das Kapital, 2013), a collective essay written by Craig Dworkin,
Simon Morris, and Nick Thurston, and recently, a translation of Ron
Silliman’s BART (Cuadro de Tiza, 2004). He is the curator of the
cooperative anthology of contemporary US poetry Elective Affinities.

Andy Fitch’s most recent books are Sixty Morning Walks, Sixty Morning
Talks and (with Amaranth Borsuk) As We Know. Ugly Duckling soon will
release his ebook Sixty Morning Walks. With Cristiana Baik, he is
currently assembling the Letter Machine Book of Interviews. He has
dialogic books forthcoming from 1913 Press and Nightboat Books. He edits
Essay Press and teaches in the University of Wyoming’s MFA program.

Amaranth Borsuk is the author of Handiwork (Slope Editions, 2012), and,
with Brad Bouse, Between Page and Screen (Siglio Press, 2012). Abra, a
collaboration with Kate Durbin forthcoming from 1913 Press, recently
received an NEA-sponsored Expanded Artists’ Books grant from the Center
for Book and Paper Arts at Columbia College Chicago and will be issued
as an artist’s book with an iPad app created by Ian Hatcher. Her
collaborative digital projects include an erasure bookmarklet, The
Deletionist, with Nick Montfort and Jesper Juul, and Whispering
Galleries, a site-specific LeapMotion erasure work for the city of New
Haven. Another collection of poems is forthcoming from Kore Press.
Amaranth is an Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts and
Sciences at the University of Washington, Bothell, where she also
teaches in the MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics.

Laynie
Browne is the author of eleven collections of poetry and two novels. Her
most recent collection of poems Scorpyn Odes, is just out from Kore
Press. Other recent books include Lost Parkour Ps(alms) in two editions,
one in English, and another in French, from Presses universitaires de
Rouen et du Havré (2014). She is a 2014 Pew Fellow. Forthcoming books
include P R A C T I C E (SplitLevel Texts). She teaches at University of
Pennsylvania and Swarthmore College.

Dan Beachy-Quick is a
poet, essayist and occasional novelist. His most recent book is A
Brighter Word Than Bright: Keats at Work. A new collection of poetry,
gentlessness, and a chapbook, Shields & Shards & Stitches &
Songs will appear this spring. He's a Monfort Professor at Colorado
State University, where he teaches in the MFA Writing Program.

Katy Bohinc is the author of Dear Alain, love letters of a poet to a
philosopher, addressed to Alain Badiou. As irreducible a work as any
poet would antagonize a philosopher with, yet also a metaphor for
Badiou's thought, who responds himself in the afternote. Bohinc
demonstrates how Love, Politics, Math and Poetry are conditions on
Philosophy, sexual metaphors intended, and poetry is everything. Slavoj
Zizek writes: "This book should be banished!" She lives in New York
City, is the director of Tender Buttons Press and recently edited Please
Add To This List: A Guide to Teaching Bernadette Mayer's Sonnets &
Experiments. Work has appeared in Poor Claudia, The Capilano Review,
Elderly, Armed Cell & others. She is working on a new book: THE
COMMUNITY.

Carla Harryman is he author of seventeen books of
poetry, prose, and works for performance including W— /M—(2013),
Adorno’s Noise (2008), Gardener of Stars (2001), and Animal Instincts:
Prose, Plays, Essays (1989). Her collaborative works include the
multi-authored work The Grand Piano, an Experiment in Autobiography: San
Francisco, 1975-1980 and The Wide Road (with Lyn Hejinian). Open Box
(with Jon Raskin), a CD of music and text performances was released on
the Tzadik label in 2012. Her Poets Theater, interdisciplinary, and
bi-lingual performances have been presented nationally and
internationally. She is the editor of two critical volumes:
Non/Narrative, a special issue of the Journal of Narrative Theory, and
Lust for Life: On the Writings of Kathy Acker (with Avital Ronell and
Amy Shoulder). She serves on the faculty of the Department of English
Language and Literature at Eastern Michigan University and on the summer
faculty of the Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College.

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About the Bureau

The Poetic Research Bureau is a valise fiction and portable literary service in Northeast Los Angeles.

Our living room at 951 Chung King Rd in Chinatown hosts an extended community of autodidacts and guessworkers caught up in language, inquiry and the unguarded arts. Just as it is: a community free school by day, and by night, a non-professional public forum for presentations, readings, screenings and sundry intellectual exchanges.

As an out-of-pocket California milk-crate boosterist enterprise, the PRB also serves as the irregular literary umbrella for projects such as occasional poetry journal The Germ ('97-'05), edited by Andrew Maxwell and Macgregor Card; and art-lit mag Area Sneaks, edited by Rita Gonzalez and Joseph Mosconi.

As a research bloc, the Bureau attempts to cultivate composition, publication and distribution strategies that enlarge the public domain. It favors appropriations, impersonations, 'compost' poetries, belated conversations, unprintable jokes and doodles, 'unoriginal' literature, historical thefts and pastiche. The publication emphasis is on ephemeral works, short-run magazines and folios, short-lived reprints and excerpts in print-on-demand formats, and the occasional literary fetish objects of stupidly incomparable price and value.

Several reading series are hosted at 951 CKR, and we welcome writers whose work lacks the 'commercial tendency' while harboring the bright, high-minded intentions that often lead to broad panic, righteous perversions, improbable arguments, and the ill-served cul-de-sacs of genius. The series are coordinated by the aforementioned Messrs Maxwell and Mosconi. If you're sympatico, passing through town, or need a megaphone, 50 seats and a big blank space, give us a write.